2010 MacBook Pro with SSD here. It's running fine, unless I want to watch Youtube videos at 720p or more (60 FPS). It hangs out a bit, but this behaviour was there in El Capitan as well
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How is macOS Sierra running on older Macs?
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2010 MacBook Pro with SSD here. It's running fine, unless I want to watch Youtube videos at 720p or more (60 FPS). It hangs out a bit, but this behaviour was there in El Capitan as well
Was suggested I try SMC reset to clear up issues. I'll try when I get home later and report back.
With Sierra, when I have quite a bit of tabs open in Safari, my MacBook 2010 becomes less responsive, even the mouse stutters. I think it's graphics related.
MacBook Pro Retina 15.4-inch Late 2013 with 16 GB RAM and GT 750M. Sierra runs perfect, like all macOS's/OS X's that I was running on this Mac (since Mavericks to Sierra). But it's true that my machine is powerful, so maybe that's it :-D
Fresh installed Sierra on my MacBook air 2011 core i5 1.7GHz with 4GB of RAM and it's running as well as it did on El Capo
Is the screensaver the only thing you care about? Why not just have the display turn off?
"Doctor it hurts when I hold my arm that way"
"So don't hold your arm that way!"
If you're having other issues that are impacting your use of the machine then that would be disappointing but who cares about a screensaver?
I'm getting daily (at least) freezes on my iMac (see sig. for specs). Very frustrating as it hosts my media library for my ATVs - not a day has passed that I have not had to go and force-shut-down and reboot my Mac since updating to Sierra.
I have a 2012 retina macbook pro, that shipped with Mountain Lion originally, and Sierra is running great on it surprisingly, and that's without doing a clean install. Other than a couple minor bugs when hooking it up to a monitor, it's running smoothly.
Runs very well on a late-2009 C2D 21.5 iMac.
I can't even believe it's still supported at all.
Siri even works well. I upgraded the RAM to 12GB in late 2014.
I can't even believe it's still supported at all.
Siri even works well. I upgraded the RAM to 12GB in late 2014.
40% performance loss after upgrading from El Capitan to Sierra in my 2012 retina MacBook. Video rendering times have increased a nice 80%, while video and streaming on any browser makes the computer lag as hell. Massive performance peaks by "Google Chrome Helper", "kernel_task" (as usual), "WindowServer", and many others. It just seems like my processors get bottlenecked at 1GHz instead of the 2.7GHz.
Might do a clean install.
Might do a clean install.
My iMac can't run Sierra, it's That Old.
But it runs Just Fine otherwise.
Considering how long my Apple GS ran - and very well, too - I'll probably replace my iMac when Apple switches to 128 bit CPU's
Oh, yeah: Did you read about the Commodore 64 that's still being used to run a business? http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-old-ass-commodore-64-is-still-being-used-to-run-an-1787196319
Considering how long my Apple GS ran - and very well, too - I'll probably replace my iMac when Apple switches to 128 bit CPU's
Oh, yeah: Did you read about the Commodore 64 that's still being used to run a business? http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-old-ass-commodore-64-is-still-being-used-to-run-an-1787196319
I have a late 2008 Macbook unibody with 8GB and SSD running smoothly on Sierra.
Still trying to get continuity and handoff with bluetooth dongle using CAT (continuity activation tool) but it makes boot hang. I am waiting for suggestions. I did not know about CAT when Ii was on Capitan or Yosemite.
Still trying to get continuity and handoff with bluetooth dongle using CAT (continuity activation tool) but it makes boot hang. I am waiting for suggestions. I did not know about CAT when Ii was on Capitan or Yosemite.
I have a very similar machine... 27 inch mid-2010 iMac with mechanical HDD running 12 GB RAM. I did a regular update, not a clean install (too much work tbh).
Sierra is working great so far, very stable. With El Cap, my machine was really slowing down, but Sierra seems to have speeded it up by about 30%. I am pleased with the performance and new features of the new OS.